CVE-2022-50561

Linux Kernel - Memory Leak in iio_device_register_eventset

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: fix memory leak in iio_device_register_eventset() When iio_device_register_sysfs_group() returns failed, iio_device_register_eventset() needs to free attrs array. Otherwise, kmemleak would scan & report memory leak as below: unreferenced object 0xffff88810a1cc3c0 (size 32): comm "100-i2c-vcnl302", pid 728, jiffies 4295052307 (age 156.027s) backtrace: __kmalloc+0x46/0x1b0 iio_device_register_eventset at drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c:541 __iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:1959 __devm_iio_device_register at drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c:2040

Scores

EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 10.0%

Details

Status published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel 5.13.0 - 5.15.86linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.16linux
linux/Kernel 6.1.0 - 6.1.2linux
Linux/Linux < 5.13
Linux/Linux 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f - 5de3add7509c95685f1185683b817dd206c4b1f1
Linux/Linux 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f - 86fdd15e10e404e70ecb2a3bff24d70356d42b36
Linux/Linux 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f - a154b1c139fbf6a49762159be81d425d41ceec87
Linux/Linux 32f171724e5cbecc80594fb6eced057cfdd6eb6f - dc6afd6070f3a5b086c8c5cfa6ded63ae44494da
Linux/Linux 5.13
Linux/Linux 5.15.86 - 5.15.*
... and 3 more
Published Oct 22, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026